Hurray, give-away day is finally here! Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today… And thanks to Sew Mama Sew for coming up with this fun idea! All you need to do to enter for a chance to win this fun little hand-made bag (pattern by Amy Butler) and other holiday goodies is leave a comment sharing your favorite Christmas tradition. Then, at the end of the day I’ll randomly pick the winner from everyone that left a comment on December 3rd! Sound like fun? Good. I thought so too.
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Thanks for the chance to win those goodies and pattern! Our fav Christmas tradition is always going to the late mass at church Christmas Eve, then having people over after to spread some christmas cheer!!
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Favorite holiday tradition: Before we go to bed on Christmas Eve we always read “The Night Before Christmas” in front of the fireplace.
I love your little handmade bag! Would like to win it.
Since we have kids, they’re still small, we have christmas-lunch instead of dinner. We spend a lot of time at the lunch-table while the kids play around.
My favorite holiday tradition is that we all give eachother a book. The book is a bigger deal that all of the other gifts.
Thanks for hosting the give away!
Cute!! This is fun, isn’t it?!
Pick me! Pick me! đŸ™‚ Maybe if I leave a million comments then you’ll have to pick me. đŸ™‚ Just joking, friend! When I think of my favorite Christmas tradition I think of a few things…first of all I always get a can of black olives in my stocking (this has been happening since I was 9 or so); my family always pops those popper things during Christmas dinner and then we wear the paper crowns throughout dinner; but I think our richest family tradition is when we all gather around the piano and sing “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel! đŸ™‚ Random traditions but they are ours!
Fudge….
Yep, that’s definitely my favorite Christmas tradition. Making different flavors, eating them all, the bellyache from eating too much fudge.
And a close second is that every year our family hosts a big graham-cracker-house building party.
Amy
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My favorite Christmas tradition would have to be the stockings filled to the brim Christmas morning. We were never allowed to touch our gifts until my parents woke up, but we’d sneak downstairs early in the morning to stockings overflowing with little goodies that we were free to eat or play with… I’m still a sucker for a full stocking. I’d rather have that than a huge gift.
my favorite tradition, even though it hasn’t been going on too long yet, is giving my kids their own ornament on Christmas Eve
I love that little bag! My favorite holiday tradition changes every year, but I think this year it is decorating my house with fun, silly little kid type things.
I’d love to win!
my favorite tradition is making a christmas star for the top of the tree on Christmas Eve.
Such a great give away =)
Love your blog!
Christmas Mass is my favorite tradition–and I can’t leave out cookie decorating either!
I love the little bag đŸ™‚
Beautiful giveaway! We started a new tradition about 8 years or so ago — No cooking on Christmas day! I make exception by tossing a French toast casserole (prepared the day before) in the oven for breakfast. Lunch is a deli tray of veggies and meat (for the nonvegetarians in the house), lots of good bread and sandwhich fixings. It really does make the day more festive and relaxed!
You mean I’m the first to post? What gives? This is gorgeous! I wish everyone good luck and thank you for holding such an awesome give away!
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This is a great giveaway! My favorite Christmas tradition was when I was growing up at home we would bake yummy goodies the night before until midnight then go to Midnight mass. On Christmas day we would eat all the yummy goodness we baked the night before. I think I might have to continue this when my kids get a little bit older.
Holy cow. I think this is the very first time I have been first to comment. My favorite Christmas tradition is taking turns opening gifts with the youngest going first.
Yea, I’m the first comment đŸ™‚ Fun giveaway, thanks!
This is so cute! Thanks for having a giveaway.
My favorite holiday tradition is to play christmas music nonstop from thanksgiving to, oh, about mid january.
kim
Oh, that’s 2 cute! Please add my name!
How fun! Thanks for sharing!!
Cute bag!! My favorite holiday tradition is puting a new ornament on the advent tree every morning with my daughter. I love how she carefully chooses which to put on.
My favourite tradition is the book we read running up to christmas, it’s called ‘the christmas mystery’ and it’s sort of like a book-as-an-advent calender. When we were wee, my mum would read it to us, these days we all have our own copies!
cute! as for traditions, well, I’m Jewish so chinese food and movies it is đŸ™‚
very cute! đŸ™‚
thanks for participating! my favorite Christmas tradition is having the feast of the 7 fishes at my parent’s house. Now, i don’t actually partake in the feast, i’m not a huge fan of baccala, smelts and eels! but i love the tradition. My mom was born in italy, and i love keeping this part of her past alive!
Very nice giveaway!
Our tradition is having our kids open a present of new Christmas PJs on Christmas eve so they can wear them and have on cute PJ’s for pictures!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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We take a christmas eve picture of all of us in santa pants, then we hang the pictures on the wall as part of our decorations year after year!
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My favorite christmas tradition is going caroling! Especially going to the old folks home, they are always so happy to see you!!!
love the give away!!!
What a delightful bag of goodies! I want to be picked, but then again, I assume everyone does. *sigh*
My favourite holiday tradition is the morning of Christmas Day the boys look for the hidden Christmas pickle on the tree. The one who finds it receives a gift (it is always some sort of activity the entire family can enjoy) and then we spend the day just being together. đŸ™‚
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Love the little purse! I am also loving your napkin tutorial below. I think I need to make some of them! Thanks for doing the tutorial đŸ™‚
Soo cute! Thanks for being generous and sharing!
Actually, our favorite tradition started when my daughter S told my Mom that every year when we put up our tree we hold hands and sing, “O Tannenbaum.” (Which has never happened at our house.)
Consequently, we decided that what fit our family most was decorating the tree while playing “Baba O’Reilly” by The Who. With a little added festive air guitar for flair.
Would love to win!
My favorite holiday tradition is on Christmas Eve we all watch a Christmas movie with the fireplace blazing and my children get to open a present (always new jammies!)!
Christmas tradition have been changing through the years… but what always remains the same it the Christmas dinner with family. Whether if it’s with my family or my husband’s love and thankfulness are always abundant. Next year we get to share our Christmas dinner with another set of twins. They will be about 8 months old and my twins will be 3 1/2.. can’t wait until they are old enough for my girls to play with.
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carol
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My favorite Holiday tradition is the Advent Calendar. Every day in December before Christmas you get to unwrap a small toy or piece of candy. This helps to count down the days to Christmas and shorten the waiting time for Santa to arrive.
What a great give-away.
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A favorite tradition in our house is to wear your new Christmas pj’s on Christmas morning. :0)
I like eating herring and potato cakes on Christmas Eve. thanks for the giveaway opp!
fav tradition is a community christmas party at my parents then everyone sings carols around the christmas tree at the community beach followed by a visit from santa at a neighbors garage where all the kids get their first present. i did this as a child and take my kids back to my parents for them to enjoy it.
thanks for the giveaway!
Christmas morning we all get together in our Christmas p.j.s for breakfast and then exchange gifts.
I love Give Away Day! It’s my favoritest day EVER!
Such a cute little bag. I kind of love Amy Butler!
shriek! that little bag is so wonderful! i can’t name a particular christmas tradition–it’s a strange mixture of his family & mine now. if he’s home, it’s the best christmas ever! his is hanging hand-beaded stockings from his grandma. how do i top THAT?
Those little goodies would be great to receive đŸ™‚
Yay, its gotta be timing to see how long it will take Dad to fall asleep after leaving the table after Christmas dinner… i think his record is 23 mins!
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Merry christmas!
Thanks for hosting such a nice givaway! I’d love to win that bag of goodies. My favorite family tradition is selecting one special gift to give to another family member on Christmas Eve. We give all the rest of the gifts on Christmas Day, but we get one gift on Christmas Eve.
Thanks for the fun giveaway…I love going to the candlelight service at our church and taking a walk at night after opening presents when everyone else is inside!
But of course I do! I would give your little items a good and proper home. Choose me! leafygreenes at gmail dot com
My favorite tradition is drinking hot chocolate. My little girl calls it “cocoa.” đŸ™‚
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I love these! I love opening one present on Christmas Eve!
I love stringing popcorn with our daughter for the tree. đŸ™‚ It started when our oldest was a teenager and wanted to try it one year, and everyone loved it so it stuck! We also make some sort of ornament each year, so unwrapping the decorations is also a great one… lots of good memories…
Thanks for the fun!
Lovely bag! đŸ™‚
My favorite Christmas tradition is going out to pick out our Christmas tree. It was so much fun last year, chasing my toddler down the tree aisles until we found the PERFECT tree. I just love the smell of a fresh Christmas tree! đŸ™‚
My favorite Christmas tradition is going to my parent’s house on Christmas eve and eating dinner and opening presents! this year will be so fun b/c we get to celebrate my daughter’s first Christmas! Yay! This is such a cute bag! I hope I win! Thanks!
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We let the kids trade gifts on christmas eve. That way their gifts to each other have special attention. They love it!
That is a nice giveaway prize. Thanks for doing this!
Cute bag! Every Christmas Eve, we all open one present each – it’s always pj’s, but the kids haven’t clued in to that yet. :0)
…I’d like soooo much to win your pretty giveaway, I love that little hand-made bag ceramic…so I’ll keep my fingers crossed, goodness knows if Fortune, in the day before my birthday (yes, yes, it’s tomorrow, 4th of december! :o)…), will smile on me! ;o)
A big hug from Italy and thanks again so much for this chance!
Thank you so much for the wonderful giveaway!!!!
count me in!
My favorite Christmas Tradition consists of squeezing our ever growing extended family into a tiny A-frame cabin for two days. We laugh, we eat, we laugh, we eat… you get the picture. đŸ™‚
What a fun idea! Oh, and I totally LOVE the bag! You’re so very talented…
My favorite Christmas tradition is baking with my mom. And eating all the treats after!
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I love making x-mas gifts and x-mas cards.
My hubby and I like to drive around, looking at lights, and counting all of those prelit deers on people’s lawns… for some reason there are alot around here. Hope I win!
My favorite Christmas tradition is making a gingerbread house. Thanks for the chance.
wonderful giveaway! i’m loving sharing advent activities based on giving, together time and projects instead of candy and toys this year with my kids!
My favorite Christmas Tradition that my mom started when I was a child was to sometime during the week of chrstmas, but before christmas we would go to McDonalds drive thru and then drive around town for a few hours looking at all of the Christmas Lights. I have passed this tradition on with my daughter BUT we all get in our Jammies on Christmas EVE and drive around looking at the lights.
Cute bag! count me in please!
what a wonderful prize! May I enter too please?
When i was a little girl and didn’t have money to buy Christmas gifts for my extended family, I’d spend an entire day making sugar cookies for everyone. Now everyone asks about the cookies.
Thank you for a chance at the giveaway and have a great holiday.
Yep, sure sounds good. Such a generous and lovely giveaway!
My all time favourite is lighting the candles in the tree. Real tree. Real candles. Nothing else will do.
My favorite tradition is lots of time spent with my daughters and our friends making handmade gifts. We don’t make them for everyone always, but we certainly try and get very into it. Dipping beeswax candles is a nice lazy afternoon with a few special families.
Happy Holidays!
My favorite holiday tradition is one my mom did with me and I now do with my kids. They get to open one gift on Christmas eve, it’s always new pj’s. They slip them on and we cuddle on the couch to read a new holiday book ( buy a new one each year). I love having that special moment with my kids!
Put my name- this is super cute. thanks!
This is so cute! I would love to win. My favorite holiday tradition is to attend church on Christmas Eve for the candle light service.
I love Amy Butler’s patterns!
My favourite Christmas tradition is that we always write a rhyme for the gifts and try to guess what’s in it before we are allowed to open it. That’s sometimes even nicer than the actual gift inside! đŸ™‚
My favorite holiday tradition is for the night before the winter solstice, the longest night of the year–before the sun sets we put candles in all of the rooms of our home. After the sunsets we go around and light them again, to remind us that even in darkness, light comes again.
Our favorite tradition is “Elfie” who arrives on St Nicholas Day (December 6th). He is an little plush elf who magically reports back to Santa and moves around every day so the kids have to find him. Then he magically disappears on Christmas Eve and in his place is an enormous stocking filled with Christmas pj’s for all.
I love decorating the tree with our handmade ornaments. We leave it up long into January.
What a ctue little bag, I love that lining fabric!
Beautiful giveaway! Our Christmas tradition comes from DH’s family. They do puzzle tags on gifts. You have to puzzle out the answer to riddle or whatever to figure out who the gift belongs to, and then give it to that person. After the person opens his/her gift, that person chooses a gift from under the tree and starts their own puzzle solving. đŸ™‚
My favorite Christmas Tradition is baking sugar cookies! I do the baking then all the kids in the family do the decorating. They have their own competition and vote on their cookies, make a huge mess and eat lots of cookies!
Thanks for a chance to win such lovely prizes.
We have many family traditions. The kids get an ornament every year. It is then marked with their name and date. New Christmas p.j.’s to open christmas eve and we put our tree up the day after Thanksgiving. Just a few of our traditions that have developed over the years.
Hi I’d love to participate, and win!
The bag is lovely and I would love it!
Our favorite tradition is sitting down and cracking a bottle of champagne just before we light the tree for the first time with everyone present!
Sandy in NJ
Please, enter me in your giveaway..
I love the bags it is so cute! My fav traditon is our annual Christmas party!
watching White Christmas over and over again while putting up the tree!
My favorite holiday tradition is a gift of new PJs on Christmas Eve. My parents did that with me and now I keep up the tradition with my son!
My favorite is the GC coming over to decorate the tree. Darling giveaway. Please enter me, thanks.
satsumas in the stockings are my fave tradition đŸ™‚
our family of five draws the name of one of us and we each make a handmade gift
great giveaway! My favorite holiday tradition is my sister’s chewy chocolate gingerbread cookies – they are sooo good.
One of our Christmas traditions is to give the kids new pajamas on Christmas Eve and then they wear them to bed that night.
What a cute giveaway!
This is a great little prize pack – my favorite holiday tradition was decorating gingerbread houses every year.
Oooh, what an adorable bag! My family holiday traditions have fallen by the wayside for me over the past several years, as I don’t live close enough to go home to my parents for Christmas anymore. However, my boyfriend and I have started a new tradition of our own (I hope). Last year, and hopefully again this year, we’ve gone cross-country skiing on Christmas day. I’m a midwestern girl by birth, now transplanted to the West coast, and Christmas just doesn’t feel like Christmas to me without snow. And if I can’t have it in my own back yard, I’m perfectly happy to drive to it. đŸ™‚
Very cute collection!
My favorite is piling in to the car with hot chocolate to go look at Christmas lights! Too much fun!
My favorite Xmas tradition is all the baking my mom and I do to give and eat all month long.
cute bag! We love taking mugs of hot chocolate and driving around town looking at Christmas lights.
I love this bag!! Too cute–thanks for a great giveaway!
What a cute little bag! My fave christmas tradition is excited photos in front of the tree before anyone gets to open up gifts. The wiggling is out of control! Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite xmas tradition is getting our xmas tree on xmas eve…i’ve done it every year since i was a little kid and even now that I’m married whenever I go home my entire family gets in the car and gets our xmas tree on xmas eve. Then we decorate it while listening to xmas songs and eating holiday cookies. =)
What a great little bag ‘O goodies! Like getting an early Christmas stocking. One of our favorite traditions is reading an old Christmas book aloud together it is called ‘Mr Willowby’s Christmas Tree’ It is a sweet poetic story about a man getting his tree which turns out to be too big so off comes the top to be thrown out. Then someone else gets that part and again it is too big so out with the top again. Round and round it goes till the very teny top is the tree for the mice who live in Mr Willowby’s house.
Thanks
lots of family tradition over the years…new pj’s on christmas eve, picking out a living christmas tree and planting it in the front yard after christmas, but what i have found is as kids grow up traditions change but that’s ok. now just having everyone home is enought of a tradition
Oooh I love it!! Amy Butler rocks!
Favorite Tradition would be driving around looking at Christmas decorations, drinking cocoa, and watching Charlie Brown & The Grinch!
We make a whole day of putting up the Christmas tree together and even the little ones join in by helping to hang ornaments. They may need a little assistance from mom or dad, but everyone helps. We have Christmas music playing in the background while we decorate. Then hot chocolate for all as we enjoy the lights of the Tree. It really brings us all closer together.
Our favorite tradition is playing hide and seek with the whole family, young and old. The adults get quite creative with the hiding spots.
my favorite christmas tradition is getting dressed up and going to midnight mass and hearing the choir sing carols.
My favorite Christmas tradition is making and frosting cut-out cookies. My mom did if for years and now I do with my kids. They love the sprinkles.
What a bunch of super-cute stuff!
My fave Christmas tradition is watching A Christmas Story and sharing one present on Christmas Eve. My boyfriend and I have added a new tradition a few years back and that’s to buy a set of Christmas ornaments that is one dog and one cat to symbolize my boyfriend (dog) and me (cat).
hooray for little pouches!
The whole family together on Christmas morning!
Please pick me!! I’m in need of some tidbits for crafting Christmas presents. Thanks a bunch
I’d love to get my hands on those goodies – thanks for the chance!
my favorite christmas tradition is listening to christmas music while decorating the house for the holidays.
My favourite tradition is playing a brand new board game after Christmas lunch. Everyone is a bit tiddly, full and in good spirits!
Gorgeous bag! Favorite tradition? Dressing up (my five year old loves a fancy dress) and going with friends to see The Nutcracker and out for flatbread pizza afterwards. This weekend it is happening, yay!
Viv
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I’m loving the cloth napkin tutorial below. Thanks!
My new favorite Christmas tradition (can it be a tradition after one year? well, it is now) is the Jesse tree that my family does together every night. Helps you stay focused on the reason for the season.
Thanks for doing this!
Lovely goodies.
Favourite tradition: Backyard cricket with oldies v youngies after lunch.
Bec
No matter what, we always open our stockigns first thing in the a.m. I love that!
lovely, lovely giveaway. thank you.
Very cute! My favourite Christmas tradition is swedish gingerbread cookies!
I would love to win this :). Please do count me in.
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omg i love this!! my favorite tradition is the turkey diner! =)
wow! cute! please enter me!!
my favorite tradition is getting together with the family!!
ooo i would love that bag!!! my favorite tradition is going to mass!
please enter me to win!!
thanks!
My favorite Christmas tradition is getting together for a big turkey dinner with family on Christmas Day and then spending the evening enjoying each others company.
I love your giveaway so would you please my name in the hat.
My new and favourite Christmas tradition is paddling in the sea after eating way too much for lunch đŸ™‚ We’ve been doing this since we moved to Cyprus 3 and a half years ago!
Super sweet! My family always opened presents on Christmas Eve, which is still my favorite tradition!
My favorite holiday tradition is making and then using an advent calender with my girls. They get so excited about the holidays and it helps them see how many more days they have to go.
My favorite Xmas tradition is the “invisible friend” I play with my parents, sisters and inlaws. Since we are a whole bunch, we just pick randomly a person and we give him/her a really really nice present. But the best are the days before the present-giving ceremony… trying to guess who’s got who!!!
Thanks for this giveaway, and please count me in if you’re willing to ship to Barcelona, Spain!
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My favorite holiday tradition is baking cookies for all our neighbors. Love it!!
My fave tradition is going around to all the houses and looking at the lights. Can’t wait to take the children this year!
We’re just starting traditions with our two young children, but I love giving them new pajamas on Christmas Eve!
Adorable bag! Thanks for the chance to win!
My favorite tradition is seeing my whole family wearing matching mama made pj pants as they open presents on Christmas eve.
Please enter me! Thanks!!!
Love the bag – I have a fondness for bags! One of my favorite traditions is cocoa and driving around looking lights and decorations on houses.
My Grandma’s turkey dinner. Scrumptious!
One of my favorite traditions is getting together with my mom and sister and baking cookies. We don’t get to do it as often anymore but it still stands out in my mind.
We don’t have any traditions yet but our family is still young
Going up into the woods and cutting down our Christmas tree, that is my favorite tradition.
We open packages on each of the twelve days of Christmas. Fun!
My favorite Christmas tradition is watching “A Christmas Story” with my family. Thanks for the napkin tutorial, btw.
My favourite tradition is our “Christmas Cake Lucky Stir” tradition. In my family every year we make a christmas cake (you know the one with all of the fruit in it? Usually called a fruit cake?) When we were younger we’d all go to my grandparents house a few days before Christmas and each person would get a chance to make a wish while stiring the cake batter.
Well years have gone by and we’ve all moved around a bit, so we can’t always get together for Christmas. So here’s what we do: Each family contributes ingredients to the mix – flour, sugar, nuts, dried fruit etc. One family is desiganted the “baker” to receive all of the ingredients. Before you send your ingredients to the “baker” you and your family each take a turn stirring your ingredient and make a wish. That way when the entire thing is combined it still has everyone’s wishes in it!
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Michelle
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Before eating the big meal, we open christmas crackers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_cracker) that I have made myself. Inside is not a paper hat, but the makings of one (a sheet of tissue paper plus random assorted “stuff”). Everyone has to use their raw material to fashion their own silly hat which they then wear throughout the meal. Here’s some photos of last year’s hats: http://tinyurl.com/6xy5kn
Oh, how pretty!
My favourite tradition is having all the kids crawl into bed with us to open their stockings in the morning đŸ™‚
I love getting up early Christmas morning to open gifts first thing! Then we all make breakfast together.
Oh pretty stuff. I hope I win.
So pretty!
My favourite tradition is making cream of wheat cake – it’s just not Christmas without it.
Cool giveaway!
I’ll love to win that!
Thanks for the chance. Such a great giveaway up for grabs!
Count me in! I’ll love to win it..
Thanks for the lovely giveaway!
Im crossing my fingers & hoping i’ll have a chance to win it!!
Count me in! The stockings are the best bit for me, my husband’s family has never done it so I’ve brought that tradition into his family as well now đŸ˜€
What a nice giveaway. Thanks!!!!
my favorite tradition is looking at Christmas lights and then heading back to my parents house for hot cocoa and a Christmas movie.
Favorite Christmas tradition is putting the ornaments on the tree. I am so sentimental about where they all came from.
Great giveaway!!
cookies are the best tradition.
Thank you for this giveaway opportunity! Your creations are beautiful!
It’s lovely! I could really use a pretty pouch to srt stuff into!
My favorite holiday tradition is opening one present on Christmas Eve. It’s a blend of my parent’s traditions – my dad’s family always opened all of their presents on Christmas Eve, while my mom’s opened theirs on Christmas day.
My favorite holiday tradition is to use the candy canes from the Christmas tree to make peppermint ice cream on New Year’s Eve.
What a lovely gift!
Snap! Same question as I gave for my giveaway! Isn’t it fun hearing about people’s traditions?
Mine is Christmas tree decorations. It’s traditional in our family to have ones that really mean something…like they’re from somewhere we’ve visited/lived or given to us by someone special. All our ornaments tell a story and I love it!
My favorite tradition is sleeping in!
My fav holiday tradition is yummy food…cookies especially!
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My favorite tradition is when we all have a pj day the first day of school break and watch “White Christmas”.
Our tradition is looking at lights together!
I love sitting around the tree in cozy pjs and listening to christmas music! so fun!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Homemade tamales and monkey bread on Christmas morning!
we always have chinese food on Christmas eve and we celebrate our anniversary going on 11 yrs!
eating yummy food and spending time with family. i love this little bag!
homemade fried dough on christmas morning (with hot chocolate, of course!)
My favorite holiday tradition is singing carols while my mom plunks down on the piano for the whole neighborhood to hear. But this year, since we will be my husband’s family instead, I will likely nudge him to play (he’s the professional musician, anyway) and we can start a new tradition with his family. Thanks for hosting such a great giveaway! God Bless!
waking up and opening stockings before eating breakfast – my sisters and I still do this even though we are adults now.
My favorite tradition is reading Twas the Night Before Christmas in front of the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.
My fave tradition was that we always got a new Christmas ornament every year, and we got to open it on Christmas Eve and hang it on the tree. We’re all married and still buy ornaments for ourselves, spouses and children!
Decorating the tree with my kids is my fave…and puttin the star on the top Christmas Eve :0)
My favorite tradition is making candy and biscotti every year for my gifts. I love to make these and it’s the only time of year I ever do it. Makes it extra special.
Oooh, I love it!
very cute! I’d love to win!
That is awesome! I love it. Hmmm… probably opening one present on Christmas Eve! To get the ball rolling. đŸ™‚
Your giveaway options are fabulous! I am new to this blog reading thing and I am loving this give away as it is showing me more new interesting blogs! Thanks
Oh, I really have to pick a favorite? We have so many good ones… One I really enjoy is jumping into the car after Christmas dinner and driving around to look at all of the Christmas lights.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this give-away! I would love it! FO’ SURE! đŸ™‚
My favorite tradition is going to my parents house a few days before and spending christmas with them. My kids love going there every year.
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My favorite Christmas tradition is watching It’s a Wonderful Life, cuddled up with my husband & 2 kids, drinking hot cocoa and enjoying one another. thanks for your wonderful giveway đŸ™‚
My family gets together and all the little kids act out the Christmas story–it is so sweet and helps us remember what’s important.
Oh boy…if that yummy goodness were mine!!! We watch A Christmas Story EVERY year and never seem to get sick of it and always laugh!!!
My favorite holiday traditions are singing in choir at Midnight Mass and Christmas dinner with my family.
That is just beautiful!
My favorite holiday tradition is setting up Christmas lights outside. It’s even better when it is snowing!
gorgeous giveaway!! I love make cookie with my kids..
I love receiving a special ornament every Christmas!
my favorite tradition is to make an ornament with my kids. I pick an age old craft to teach them and we make it.
Great giveaway!
One holiday tradition for us is that each year when we decorate the tree I give our kids
three ornaments that represent what they were about the past year. Each is dated and when they grow and leave home they will take their ornaments with to start their tree. It great fun to see what was big for them each year.
my faviorite christmas tradition is playing poker with the whole family. and fighting over who gets the last piece of chocolate cookie!
ca-yute!
I like to go to the movies after Christmas dinner with my family.
My favorite family tradition is eating a traditional Korean dinner for our big dinner instead of the normal things – green bean casserole, turkey, etc.! đŸ™‚
How cute!! I would so love to win, so please enter me. It won’t happen this year, but my family usually has the tradition of opening gifts and going out to eat on Christmas Eve, so we cook and stuff on Christmas day. It’s a lot of fun and I’m sad things are changing this year b/c we have to go out of town!!
-lauren
lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
We don’t have any tradition for celebrating Christmas, but I really like your give-aways, please count me in.
Please count me in!
Oops… left out my favorite traditon. Our family movie marathon, usually the same silly movies each year, with Chinese during the first, people chow the second, and family members starting to nod off in the third and fourth…
I’d love to win your giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win such a great prize! As for holiday traditions…love to watch it’s a wonderful life and drink hot chocolate..this will be my daughter’s first Christmas which is very special. We always open up one present on Xmas Eve…Christmas Day is when we have to wear Christmas hats during our family game night…too funny!
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that bag is so cute! đŸ™‚ we used to read the best christmas ever book.
Ooooh…me me…please.
Our Christmas tradition is that everyone usually comes to us during the holidays and I am in charge of all the food during the gathering. I love x’mas and the get together with friends and family.
Thanks for the chance to participate.
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Nice! Thanks for the giveaway! Fave holiday tradition: looking for the pickle in the Xmas tree!
i like all of goodies. thanks for offering them!
My favorite holiday tradition is decorating the tree. I love looking at all the ornaments from each year and reliving those moments.
Love the little bag. My favorite tradition is helping my dad decorate his upside-down Christmas tree. He has been hanging it from the ceiling for years. Long story. (There has always been a “normal” tree at my parents’ house, too – we call that mom’s tree.)
My favorite tradition is decorating the tree while listening to Christmas music and drinking egg nog (spiked)
I love little bags–and yours is so cute! My favorite tradition: spending Christmas Eve with my family.
I love listening to “The Muppets Christmas” CD while decorating the house and the tree! That’s what we always did when I was a kid. My kids are learning to love it now too!
I love the little bag! Please enter me in your drawing!
One of our favorite traditions is making caramel corn to give away to our friends and family. Of course, we do keep a batch for ourselves!!
My favorite tradition……. I love getting ready for Santa’s visit with the kids Christmas Eve, and after they’ve gone to bed, leaving all the “evidence” that he came- snowy sparkly footprints, eaten cookies (DH’s fav part), I rearrange all the stuffed animals to look at the front door, tie ribbons on them and give each a candy cane!! And I love going to church and hearing the carols.
my favorite tradition is putting the stickers on toys with my dad.
I’d love to enter your contest. Thanks for your generosity.
Sincerely,
Kali
Since moving to the States and spending pretty much every Christmas with my husband’s family, a lot of my traditions have fallen by the wayside, but I like the new one we’ve made up: my kids make ornaments each year for the tree. They cover a wee 2 foot tree right now. I can’t wait ’til they cover the bigger tree.
What a fabulous giveaway! My favorite tradition is the weekend before Christmas my husband and I get a babysitter and go out to dinner and then hit Toys R Us late at night – no crowds! Thanks! Beth
We love making sugar cookies together and getting frosting and sprinkles all over the kitchen! Thanks for the giveaway…very cute bag!
Our tea brunch the morning of Christmas while we open gifts. We always have homemade fruitcake and coffee cake. ‘Tis the best!
Pick me! Thanks for your generous giveaway.
Oooh how fabulous!! My fave holiday tradition is going to a fun family movie after dinner on Christmas! Thanks for having a giveaway!! đŸ™‚ xo- Holly (hollyndevlin@gmail.com)
We always get my parents’ tree on my birthday…since forever…and then put on the Christmas music, heat up cider, get out the chips and queso, and decorate. My kids are now a part of the tradition, and love going with Pops to pick out the perfect tree.
Oh, great giveaway! My favorite tradition is making cookies. This year my 2 year old son will want to participate so that means bigger messes and lots more fun! Hopefully some cookies make it to the tins and neighbors.
Eating homemade Trash (chex mix) , play games and listen to old records as a family. Angie
Mine is the advent calender. My girls get so excited everyday, it is fun to watch.
How cute! Please enter me. đŸ˜‰ One of my favorite traditions is stringing popcorn and cranberries to add extra beauty to our tree. This year is our my first year having a real tree – I am really enjoying it!
God Bless,
Miss Emily Rose
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Our families’ favorite family tradition is Christmas breakfast – eggs, hashbrowns and ham. My husband has had it for all of his 40 years. It is a tradition started with his mom (now deceased) and continued through her oldest daughter and hosted at our house.
My fave christmas tradition is getting up early, making monkey bread, and having a lazy morning enjoying the fam.
My favorite: now that’s hard. But I love new P.J.s every year and preparing something special (song, poem, drama) for our family Christmas worship. Oh and fattigmanbakkles (fried Norwegian cookies.) I love this time of year!
What a cute pouch! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love it when my family gets together and sets up the nativity scene while reading the story in Luke. It’s good to be with family!
My favorite Christmas tradition is sitting by the tree at night, with the tree lights on, talking with my family members. Thanks for the giveaway!
Would love to win! tradition I have for myself to either when I’m up really late of have woken up in the middle of the night ot just grab a blanket and sit on the coach watching the lights on the Christmas tree. it’;s just soothing and great for holiday personal reflection đŸ™‚
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my favorite tradition is picking out the tree. we found the perfect tree this last weekend, but it was $100 too much!!
What a cute bag!! I love caroling!
we light candles on a advent wreath on the sundays leading up to christmas – it keeps me focused on what’s important this time of year.
Thank you for your wonderful giveaway. My favorite Christmas tradition is the birthday cake for Jesus that we make every year. I make the cake and then my three boys decorate it however they want. We all love it and it refocus’ us on the real meaning of Christmas.
I just love the travel involved in Xmas. I might be in the minority, but driving all that distance to see someone reminds us of how excited we are and how much we really want to see them.
very cute bag. We leave reindeer food out on the patio for Santa’s reindeer:) http://scrappinfor3.blogspot.com/
Ours is on Christmas Eve we have a massive antipasto dinner with all the family gathered. It is a nice calm before the chaos type meal.
My favourite christmas tradition is leaving out the carrot and milk for Santa and his reindeer.
growing up my favorite tradition was when we would all get loaded up and go pick out a Christmas tree at the same tree farm and there was free candy canes and really good hot chocolate, then the whole way home we would smell the fresh pine!
Beautiful! Count me in, please…our favorite Christmas morning tradition now that the kids are all grown up? Sleeping in until 9AM!
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This is my favorite time. Zoo Lights and other street lights we love to walk around as a family, hot chocolate in hand. Go to the mountain to get our tree. Decorate the house with mostly hand made decorations. Home made cinnamon rolls for breakfast as we open stockings and gifts all day long. We stop to play with toys and take as long as we need to to enjoy each present. Just a very mellow day. Love it!
This would be absolutely lovely to win and I hope I do because I think would flip!
Thanks so much for the chance too!
Oooh very pretty!
Favorite holiday traditions? I love baking seasonal goodies, listening to holiday music and decorating. I can’t pick just one thing! LOL
I love making cookies with my mom for Christmas
I love the color combination!
My favorite holiday tradition has to be my mother’s rum log cookies.
What a great giveaway! đŸ™‚
My favourite holiday tradition is a Christmas dinner with my immediate family on December 23, before all the rush starts. After dinner we just cozy up in the sofa, playing games and eating clementines. đŸ™‚
Holiday baking would have to be one of my favourite traditions, I now do it with my son and it takes twice as long but is ten times more fun!
Thanks for the giveaway!
My favorite tradition is cooking Christmas cookies with my 4 yo. We started it last year and she talked about it all year long. đŸ™‚
Thanks for your generosity and joining give-away day!
THis is so cute! THank you for this give~away!
Take care all, good luck, & happy Holidays!
Rane and kids
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i hope you extend the deadline! my favorite tradition is eating and reading the Christmas story together!
Love your little bag. Favorite tradition is ordering chinese food and not cooking.
That is very cute.. Thank you for doing it.. Terri
Baking cookies and dressing the kids up like elves for delivery. đŸ™‚
My favorite tradition is visiting the ocean on Christmas Eve. We have dinner at a fish restaurant on a pier, watch wildlife, and spend great family time together.
I love eating pozole on Christmas Eve, a tradition passed down from my husband’s family. So yummy and warm! It’s a good prelude to the sugar fest that comes the next day.
So cute! count me in please… thanks, lora